I didn't have any look or any style in prison. Your footwear couldn't cost more than $50. You can't wear blue, orange, gray, any patterns, or you couldn't wear your hair down. There were just so many rules that coincided with your attire.
Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.
It was never the case that prisoners were simply allowed unlimited parcels - books or otherwise... It would be a logistical impossibility to search them all, and they would provide an easy route for illegal materials.
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
